I'd like to see a post-mortem for this submission one the traffic dies down. Most startups these days feature flashy designs, and I've always wondered how much it really mattered. This design is straightforward and not flashy at all, so I'd be interested in seeing the conversion rate of an "academic-looking" design.
Ersatz - Deep neural networks in the cloud
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Re: Ersatz - Deep neural networks in the cloud
#12Are you hosting your own cluster of using EC2 GPU instances?
Hosting our own for now--although weighing pros/cons of using AWS.
On one hand, AWS GPUs do seem a bit slower than bare metal, and it's theoretically (actually?) more expensive. Plus we get more control if we host our own.
But then again, running a data center is a problem that has been solved and I'm not sure we can create much value there. In practice, it will probably end up a bit of both, depending on demand.
Re: Ersatz - Deep neural networks in the cloud
#13Demo demo demo!
Re: Ersatz - Deep neural networks in the cloud
#14Are you hosting your own cluster of using EC2 GPU instances?
Hosting our own for now--although weighing pros/cons of using AWS. On one hand, AWS GPUs do seem a bit slower than bare metal, and it's theoretically (actually?) more expensive. Plus we get more control if we host our own. But then again, running a data center is a problem that has been solved and I'm not sure we can create much value there. In practice, it will probably end up a bit of both, depending on demand.
Hah do you guys just have servers sitting around or are you at least co-locating?
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#15OMG I have been waiting for something like this. Deep Belief Networks have been smashing machine learning records in jsut about every domain. The only problem was that they were annoyingly slow to converge, and hard to program/debug
see Hinton's google code slides for more info on how powerful these things are:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M (that's 2007, things are even spicier now)
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hosting our own for now--although weighing pros/cons of using AWS. On one hand, AWS GPUs do seem a bit slower than bare metal, and it's theoretically (actually?) more expensive. Plus we get more control if we host our own. But then again, running a data center is a problem that has been solved and I'm not sure we can create much value there. In practice, it will probably end up a bit of both, depending on demand.
Hah do you guys just have servers sitting around or are you at least co-locating?
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#17This seems like a very small market you're going after. It requires people to have good knowledge of deep neural networks (they have to choose the model, architecture, hidden units, multiplicative units, etc.) I think it would be more interesting and open things up to a wider audience if some of these parameters could be chosen for you.
Re: Ersatz - Deep neural networks in the cloud
#18I'd like to see a post-mortem for this submission one the traffic dies down. Most startups these days feature flashy designs, and I've always wondered how much it really mattered. This design is straightforward and not flashy at all, so I'd be interested in seeing the conversion rate of an "academic-looking" design.
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#19Can we process images and/or video as inputs to this service?
Re: Ersatz - Deep neural networks in the cloud
#20Can we process images and/or video as inputs to this service?
yes